Hail size 1"
5 W Gibbon Buffalo County
“Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (GID)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Kearney Jun 10, 2026
The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 2.5" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Kearney this day. At 2.5" — baseball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.
Largest hailstone
2.5"
≈ baseball · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
17,498
Ground reports
3
3 hailThe 2nd most severe storm Kearney has seen in the last 12 months
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
6.6 /10
- Hail size
- 63 /100
- Homes exposed
- 85 /100
- Ground truth
- 50 /100
Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.
How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.
Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.
How Kearney saw the hail — from two instruments
We map this storm two ways: the NEXRAD radar signatures the storm produced overhead, and the radar-estimated size of the hail in the air. The two surfaces don’t have to match — where they diverge is where estimated size aloft ran ahead of, or behind, what the signatures caught.
Radar-estimated hail size
Maximum hail size as estimated from radar aloft. Treat it as the storm's ceiling — the largest supportable stone — rather than a ground measurement.
Max size
2.5"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jun 10, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Kearney, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Jun 10, 2026 sits in Kearney's hail record
This was Kearney's 4th recorded hail day, arriving 5 days after the Jun 5, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 2nd of the 7 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Kearney at 2.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jun 10, 2026 convective day was bigger than Kearney: the same system put hail over 777 other tracked cities, 79 of them in Nebraska. Nearest: Riverdale (9 miles northwest, up to 1"); Gibbon (10 miles east, up to 2.25"); Elm Creek (14 miles west, up to 2.75").
These maps are stills from Kearney's Jun 10, 2026 storm. In the Overview app the same surfaces are live — radar updating in real time, radar-estimated hail size as it forms, and NWS spotter reports pinned where they're filed — with a radar replay you can scrub back over any past day.
What people on the ground reported
These are storm reports filed with the National Weather Service and released through the NOAA Storm Prediction Center — public-domain observations from spotters, the public, and NWS surveys. We quote each one exactly as filed.
Hail reports
3 reports Hail size 1"
Kearney Buffalo County
“Public phone call reported 1 inch hail. (GID)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1"
Kearney Buffalo County
“Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (GID)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Storm forensics
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports,
not a radar-measured storm track.
How the storm moved
The storm tracked southwest at roughly 15 mph, based on the timing of ground reports.
Hail was reported over 33 minutes, from to .
Reports came from Gibbon — beyond Kearney itself.
What 2.5" hail means for Kearney roofs
Two-inch-plus hail punctures shingles, breaks skylights and windows, and dents anything soft. In the core of a footprint like this, close to every roof is a candidate for an insurance claim. Speed decides who writes those jobs.
What this storm is worth to a roofer
$210M
Potential roof exposure — 17,498 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
87 jobs
Illustrative work
~$1.3M
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around June 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.
Track hail over Kearney on the live map
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Kearney hail history
← All hail in Kearney 7 recorded storm days in Kearney, NE
Other storms in Kearney
Jul 30, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 1.25"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 29, 2026
Jun 20, 2026
1.25" Estimated 1.25"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 5, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed 
May 17, 2026
May 16, 2026
3.25" Signatures 3.25" Estimated 2.5"
4
ground reports
A storm day here is a convective day — it runs from noon to noon
UTC, so late-night hail is grouped with the afternoon storm that
spawned it rather than split across two calendar dates. Ground
reports are public-domain observations from the NOAA Storm
Prediction Center. Radar surfaces are detections and estimates,
not confirmed damage. Last updated Aug 3, 2026.